Oklahoma football: Numbers to know ahead of OU-Army kickoff
By Chip Rouse
Oklahoma football is seeking its fourth consecutive win of the 2018 season when the Sooners take on Army on Saturday night for the fourth time in either team’s history.
The Sooners are seeking their 38th win in 44 games in the three-plus seasons Lincoln Riley has been at Oklahoma. It also will be the 119th consecutive sellout at Gaylord Family — Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, dating back to the opening game of the 1999 season.
The past two weeks, OU quarterback Kyler Murray has set career records in passing yards. Murray completed 19 of 33 passes for 308 yards and three touchdowns in the Sooners’ 49-21 win over UCLA, and followed that with 348 passing yards and another three touchdowns last weekend at Iowa State in his first true road start.
Murray, a redshirt junior who played his freshman season at Texas A&M and this summer signed a $4.6 million contract to play baseball in the Oakland A’s organization, also leads Oklahoma in rushing with 169 yards in three games.
In 10 career games for Oklahoma (four of them starts), Murray, the ninth overall pick in the 2018 MLB Draft, has completed 67 of 94 passes (71.3-percent completion percentage) for 1,112 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Here are some more notable numbers to know ahead of Saturday night’s matchup:
6 of 10 — Army has won six of its last 10 games away from home.
10 — OU wide receiver Marquise “Hollywood” Brown leads the nation with 10 catches of 50 yards or more since 2017.
17 — Total points Oklahoma has allowed in the first half after three games. OU has outscored its three opponents by the combined score of 87-17 in the first half and 149-62 overall.
24-4-1 — Oklahoma is 24-4-1 as the No. 5 team in the Associated Press poll and 11-2-1 when playing at home as the No. 5-ranked team.
28 — Tackles for loss by the OU defense through the first three games, That number ranks seventh nationally.
30 — The Sooners have scored at least 30 points in 26 of their last 27 games and are 25-2 in those games.
100 — Oklahoma’s Red Zone offense scoring percentage this season. The Sooners have scored all 12 times they have reached the Red Zone on offense, and are 9 of 12 scoring touchdowns when in the Red Zone.
112 — Austin Seibert has made 112 consecutive extra points, the third longest active streak in the country.
275.0 — Passing yards per game allowed by the Army defense this season. That ranks 107th in the country.
306.7 — Army lead the nation in rushing offense last season (362.3 yards per game), and its 306.7 rushing average this season is the sixth best in the country after three games.
Statistics for this article extracted in part from the Oklahoma-Army Game Notes published by the OU athletic department.